Targeted and specific activity designed to help children understand a range of past tense verbs when writing. I've used it in writing recounts and narratives. Very useful!

Year round school: a good idea? Presentation detailing facts and stats and a format for a class debate. Great fun time filler or debate lesson!

A full day’s resources for the first day back, including informal assessment opportunities for writing, maths, speaking and reading: Morning starter (while children are registered): grammar, using an image to write sentences and identify word classes; Golden rules children decide as a class the rules for the year; Recount of holiday: writing assessment task; Maths treasure hunt which requires a little prep to hide all the tasks about the classroom/playground! Selfie biography task children get the chance to set goals and write about themselves. Reading task perhaps to precede a quiet reading time at the end of the day.

Part of Healthy eating week, this activity gets the children to focus on balance and a more holistic version of health. Tried it out today and it was good!

Spaced learning involves presenting the unit initially to the kids. Give them all the info. Then take a ten minute break (we usually play with clay or draw something). Then give the cloze quiz.\n Then another 10 minute break. Finally, get the class to label the planets with post-it notes, sticking as many information labels as they can remember.

reading, inference, paraphrasing, comprehension

Challenging paragraphs for the children to read, which they then paraphrase into simpler language, retaining the important information.

Great activity, moving from visuals involving inference into texts, involving all abilities.

Independent work for children in upper ks2. Short paragraphs to practice using evidence to justify.

Using context and prefix/suffix clues, this worksheet will help children to read around words and use word chunks to enhance their understanding of texts.

Using elements of spaced learning to help the children study, this is a comprehensive but concise series of lessons which culminates in test-style SATs questions on the focus area.

Using elements of spaced learning to help the children study, this is a comprehensive but concise series of lessons which culminates in test-style SATs questions on the focus area.

Black history month. A whole- year group task for the day, culminating in a written reflection of Apartheid. Incredibly interesting day's work!

Focusing on areas of weakness in my year group, I made a series of these presentations for the kids to prepare them for the reasoning papers. The independent work was a few problems from previous SATs papers. Hope they help!

wicked xmas lessons!

With less questions than the usual SATs test, this resource was used in my class this week in an hour session, allowing enough time to discuss the vocabulary and practice answering questions worded in a similar way to the tests from the last two years. The theme is ‘Mummies’, which the boys enjoyed. This is a non-fiction paper, but with longer texts and no subheadings.

A quick resource, about 30 mins, to help the children understand how to use the text when answering questions in a reading test. Texts are linked in the presentation. I use this each week, changing the text and the questions. Please leave feedback and I will respond!

A series of activities and comprehension questions based on Macbeth, using snippets of the original text and an abridged version to read as a class. The text is not my own, it is typed from Usborne Illustrated stories from Shakespeare.

Just a 20-minute assembly with a few role models in science to discuss.

Specifically focusing on summarising a text for its purpose, I use this as a standalone lesson with my year 6s!